Monthly Archives: October 2012

Happy Halloween!! Got your Halloween clipart?

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We want to wish all of you a great Halloween, and send a quick reminder to be extra careful when driving tonight!  The kids tonight are going to be focused on candy, and not road safety.  We all know how unpredictable they can become when they have sugar on their minds, so watch out!

Looking to spruce up your yearbook pages with some Halloween clipart?  Yearbooks Desktop allows you to import any clipart you find on the web.  Just download it, import it to your images section, and away you go!   Having trouble finding clipart?  Here are some suggestions:

Openclipart.org has a great selection of clipart.  Here is a sampling of their Halloween clipart selection!

CLKER.com – A clipart repository where all the images have been released by their author into the public domain. Similar to openclipart.org, CLKER offers a few extra choices to round things out. (Halloween clipart on CLKER)

Clipart.com claims to be the largest collection of royalty-free clipart offered by subscription on the Web.  They have a Halloween clipart section as well!

Have you found another great source for Halloween clipart?  We invite you to share it in the comments!

Themed banners are all the rage

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Banners are easily becoming the most talked about new feature in Yearbooks Desktop.  If you don’t already know, banners are themed header and footer packages that can be added to your pages.

We offer several sets of banners.  Each set contains standard headers for grades, activities, field trips, autographs, etc, as well as matching footers.  A ‘Blank’ header is also available so you can insert your own page title.

Learn how to add banners using our online help videos!  Banners can be added to one page at a time, or they can be added to multiple pages using the auto flow banners function.

Change your banner theme at any time, and watch as all of your pages are updated with the new theme automatically.

Start with Importing Students

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One of the first steps we face when creating a digital Yearbook is to import the student information into the program.  Once the data is loaded in, creating and organizing your pages is fairly easy, so we’ve posted some tips to assist you with your import.

Usually, photographers will provide you with a PSPA Photo CD, which is a CD that contains all of your student’;s pictures, and an index file that has been set up based on the industry standard.  This is a very common format in the industry, so don’t be afraid to ask your photgrapher for PSPA output.

Once you have your PSPA CD, importing it into Yearbooks Desktop is fairly straight forward, as is outlined in these step by step instructions on our support site.  Once your data has been imported, the program makes it very easy to correct spelling errors, adjust classes, and add or remove individual students.

But what happens if your photographer can not provide you with a PSPA CD?  Don’t worry, Yearbooks Desktop can import non-industry standard CD’s as well.  Just follow this handy guide from our support site, and you’ll have your non-PSPA data loaded in no time.

Remember, our team has been importing data into Yearbooks Desktop for years, so if you run in to a snag anywhere along the way, contact our friendly support team.

October is Fall Harvest Month

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Autumn was also known as the harvest season in the earlier days. It is so because this season provides the ideal conditions for harvesting crops, fruits and vegetables. Wheat ripens during this season. In fact in most of North America, the famous harvest celebrations takes place during autumn.  Surprisingly, this overabundance of beauty can lead to unique challenges when it comes to snapping photos.  Here is an article that discusses some of these challenges, and suggests methods to overcome them.  Have a read through, to ensure that your photos look their best.